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Micro Solution Chennai start-up makes gas turbine-battery combo for trucks

Chennai start-up makes gas turbine-battery combo for trucks

Paves the way for plying heavy-duty vehicles powered by electricity

Blackest and whitest

For some years, Anish Kapoor, the India-born British artist, held the rights to use the then blackest pigment, called Vantablack, which absorbs 99.96 ...

Life Sciences Cruelty-free research

Cruelty-free research

‘Organ-on-a-chip’ promises to end animal testing and give clearer results, too

Quantum news

Marine harvestFollowing the success of seaweed farming in southern Tamil Nadu, where some 900 fisherfolk families have been earning ₹8,000 a month ...

From the labs New vaccine from IIT Kanpur

New vaccine from IIT Kanpur

Dibyendu Kumar Das, Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering, IIT Kanpur, and his team are working on developing replication-competent ...

From the labs Small unmanned flyer

Small unmanned flyer

A team headed by Prof AK Ghosh of the Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Kanpur, has developed a small unmanned aerial system (UAS) based on the ...

mRNA vaccine mRNA: The hope and the hype

mRNA: The hope and the hype

A decades-old idea, but what makes the mRNA vaccine practicable today is the convergence of technologies

Wow! Look who’s peeking into the origins of the universe

Look who’s peeking into the origins of the universe

Six times bigger than the Hubble, the James Webb space telescope will pick up infra-red signatures from the earliest galaxies

DNA data banks

Bill proposes creation of national and regional DNA data banks for the maintenance of a forensic database

News Shaky Himalayas

Why there’s a need to study the ongoing subsurface deformation that makes the Himalayan region vulnerable to large earthquakes

Life sciences Deep learning cancer detection

How artificial intelligence can aid and improve early detection of breast cancer

Beware the quantum computers

Today’s encryption technology will be putty in the hands of those running the post-quantum world. How equipped are we to safekeep our secrets and interests?

From the labs Decorative glass from hazardous waste

CGCRI, Kolkata, has incorporated arsenic-contaminated sludge, e-waste glass and tannery waste into decorative glass in different colours

From the labs Bio urea to slash subsidy bill

IIT (BHU) professor has devised a ‘thermally-accelerated anaerobic digestion’ (TAD) reactor that can produce hydrogen and bio urea from agri residues

From the labs 3-in-1 sensor for industrial use

The ‘Portable Rheology and Temperature Sensor’ (PoRTS) can measure temperature, density and viscosity simultaneously

Future of finance Banking on algorithms and chatbots to avoid bad loans

Bengaluru-based Archeron group plans to open five banks that are run entirely by AI and quantum technologies

Indian Ocean whales are changing their caller tunes

Mystifyingly, over the years, the frequencies have both decreased and increased

Talent pool

The government has launched a ‘National Database on Indian-Origin Academicians Abroad’, containing information on 23,439 scientists or faculty and ...

Artificial photosynthesis

Scientists have found a way to mimic nature’s own process of reducing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere — photosynthesis — to capture excess ...

Tying up for AI

The Indo-US Science and Technology Forum has launched a ‘US-India Artificial Intelligence Initiative’ for cooperation in priority areas for both ...

Ionic wings

Can you imagine a plane without moving parts? Is this a flight of fancy, you might well ask. However, scientists are indeed experimenting with a ...

A nano torch for cells

It can be used to identify new cancer-fighting drugs

Has methanol finally got its due?

The government explores this alternative to electric mobility, especially for heavy-duty commercial vehicles

Supramolecules in capacitors

A key component of capacitors — devices that store electrical charges (like batteries) — is the dielectric material. These are a class of electrical ...

Mars may be hiding most of its ‘missing’ water underground: NASA-funded study

The study shows that between 30% and 99% of Mars’ water is trapped within minerals in the planet’s crust

Covid-19 vaccine safe; based on scientific evidence, says AstraZeneca

Says, review of available safety data of over 17 mn people vaccinated in the EU, and UK with the Covid-19 vaccine has shown no evidence of increased risk of pulmonary embolism, DVT or thrombocytopenia

Strides gets USFDA nod for Potassium Chloride for Oral Solution

Used for prevention, treatment of low blood levels of potassium

News from the labs

Cheaper home-grown power deviceScientists at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, have developed the country’s first High Electron Mobility ...

Fortifying milk

How to enhance the nutritional content of milk? Feed the animals brahmi and aloe vera, says the National Dairy Research institute, Karnal. A study ...

Revived beauty of Sundarbans

All isn’t well in Sundarbans, noted the Calcutta High Court recently, expressing dismay at the environmental neglect of West Bengal’s famous mangrove ...

Trash to cash Digging for gold in digital dumps

IIT Delhi team patents eco-friendly tech to recover fuel and metals from e-waste

Crystals that grow best in space

Pour hot distilled water into a beaker containing copper sulphate powder, and after two days you’ll find salt-like crystals at the bottom. Take one ...